Mary Downs
02:01:15 PM
Hi all-- we will begin the presentation in a few minutes. Thank you for joining us
Lucas Braga Machado
02:02:26 PM
Hello!
Lucas Braga Machado
02:02:53 PM
Mary.. Quick question. Where do we sign up for more online events like this one?
Katherine McCoy,
02:04:11 PM
is the video working now as not hearing anything?
Yasir Dhaeer
02:05:40 PM
when does this event start?
Sophie Faaborg-Andersen
02:06:26 PM
Yes
Hello everyone and welcome to today's virtual session. My name is Mary Jones and I'm in mission. Tonight recruitment coordinator here at the Kennedy School. So, just to start off the session. We like to make sure that our technology is working correctly. So if you can hear my voice right now. If you wouldn't mind typing into the chat box to confirm.
Shaundra Ullman
02:06:30 PM
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Lucas Braga Machado
02:06:30 PM
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Abdulaziz Alhumud
02:06:31 PM
Yes, I can hear
Yasir Dhaeer
02:06:33 PM
yes
Perfect alright I will turn things over to my rush. Thank you Maryann. Thank you so much to the office of admissions for this continuing partnership with the Center for public leadership well Good afternoon. Everyone from this side of the world. We are very excited to engage with you. On our annual admissions webner. This is for perspective applicants at the Harvard Kennedy School and we know you're all excited to know more because the deadline is up coming from the Center for public leadership you will be.
Able to hear from 8 more team members who represent student student facing portfolios across the center and the Center for public leadership's mission is really the development of principled effective public leaders and in the pursuit of such mission. We have 4 pillars, which includes student engagement, faculty research collaboration, an convening an outreach and impact.
So I mentioned that we would have staff here with you. You'll be listening to after myself and random Ward. Unfortunately is unable to make it, I will be discussing fellowships with you, but we have Eva from strategic engagement will speak about our alumni relations? What it means to be part of our greater alumni network. Ellen Gallagher will talk about our leadership development programs for a cross Cpl. Across HKS students and then we have.
Social innovation and change initiative representatives clean Kelly and more and then a Maya from our behavioral insights group Devaughn from a brand new William Monroe Trotter Collaborative and Annie trained from our events and outreach team. So let me begin with the Cpl. Fellowships which is really the heart of Cpl. As far as our mission is concerned and part of our students facing roles so this year, we have 124.
All those from 11 distinct fellowships and you will see the demographics of what they compose of 33% or you as students of color. We have a good spread of joint and concurrent degree students from across Harvard schools. We have several that are doing jointly agrees with the Business School and then we are 43% female.
Are fellowships as I said, are distinct and their programming also comes across the board so this thing in a way that if you go through this light and actually you can find this in the web site. Each of our 11 fellowships have a very different type of focus or mission, so for example, the bacon. Fellows are for environmental leaders. We have active military and veteran military members of the Black Family Graduate Fellowship. We have those who have lead in it.
The face of adversity are doing fellows all the way to a spread of across 3 schools fellowship. The Sacrament Fellowship composed of students from the school of Education. The School of public health as well as the Harvard Kennedy School.
Our fellowship programs follow a rigorous an robust Calculator occur. Coke regular programming based on servant leadership and our curriculum also covers A4. Major competencies, including Self Awareness Cross. Cultural competence social responsibility. An community and program delivery is a mix of faculty taught skill based competencies from workshops experiential leadership.
Cool heart based experiences, including a field experience trip to any of the 48 contiguous States and peer to peer learning and consultations. So I guess I'll stop there for 11 fellowships. There is more to learn about how students can engage with the Cpl. Programming I'll now turn this over to Eva Heinstein our strategic engagement manager.
Hi everyone, very pleased to share a little bit about what happens after fellows leave their degree programs and the Cpl. Fellowship program so since 2000. We've awarded 903 fellowships to over 850 unique alumni and Cpl. Fellows really knit lifetime bonds. While they're at HKS another. Harvard graduate schools are alumni community is really growing rapidly. Each year and Cpl. Is dedicated to supporting fellows long after they complete their time.
At each chaos in the other Harvard graduate schools, you see a few stats here just showing the impact that our fellows are having in the world.
So to tell you a little bit more about how we engage with our alumni and we have a number of pathways. One is communication tools that we have a new expanded directory that really enables our alumni to stay connected to find other alumni in similar fields across cohort and years and we also have a class list. So we have representatives from each year that stay connected to their fellow alumni share information job opportunities engaged in discussion around current events.
Organize gatherings etc. We also have a really robust volunteer structure. The Alumni Council is kind of the lead in that effort. It's a member, Alumni Membership Council with 15 across fellowship programs in years and they really support. The Center in all of our alumni engagement activities. We also have regional leads so our alumni are clustered in a number of US hub San Francisco, New York, Boston and Washington DC and.
So some international locations, so these regional needs are kind of points in those different cities to engage their fellow alumni an organize events this year were actually launching a formal mentor ship pilot, which is really exciting so this is an opportunity for alumni to coach Fellows. While there at Cpl. And we hope that all of our fellows will then go on to become alumni at coaches themselves so wonderful opportunity for exchange around leadership development and growth. And then we also run a number of convenience for alumni. We have a triennial Cpl. Alumni reunion, which is typically a two day gathering.
I'm where alumni come back to the school. They get to refresh. Their leadership toolkit connect with faculty. Of course, one another and we also have self organized regional gatherings and alumni reunions bicho words as you can see, there's really a lot of activity and I think that Cpl is really interested in maintaining strong ties in the eliminate community believe that a lot of the goals and ideas that get articulated while you're here need a whole lot of support and back up as you go out into the world and your fellow.
Fellows will really be those people who are supporting you and cheering you on as you go forth so that's just a little bit about how we engage our alumni.
I'm going to turn it over to Ln to tell you more about leadership development programs at each cast thanks so much either so as Eva said. My name is Ellen Gallagher on the senior program manager for leadership development and our leadership development programs are programs around leadership development for students at HPS, who are not Cpl. Fellows so really trying to have a fellows like experience available to all of HK S as in HK SLM. I did enjoy some of the leadership development programs an undefined invaluable and nuclear cost 2016.
To give a sense of what we're trying to do with the leadership development program. I like to quote the well known African proverb. If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.
My goal in designing and managing our leadership development program offerings is that they equip students with the tools, they need to go far together.
And in terms of our goals, you can see them up on the slide. You have in front of you. We work to prepare students with competences so they can become principled and effective leaders in the communities they serve so that is a grand goal and we have very specific gateways that we try to do that specifically we think that leadership is a laboratory. And so to be to become better leaders. You need to experience it so we have.
Programs, where students can experience leadership a servant leaders as well as actually making things, happening through a variety of programs that will explain in the next slide.
And then we also think about to become better leaders. You also need to be coached in half self reflection. So we also have opportunities for coaching, so that students can reflect on their personal and professional pathways in goals and they can move forward and get closer to those goals.
The leadership development program that we hope that you all after you gain admission admission to HPS. We hope that you will all take advantage of these workshops. There are 4 elements of our programs. Note that all of these opportunities listed here are all by applications do you have to apply for each part of each of these pieces?
And that they are available to HTS students focusing on students that are not Cpl fellows so for the first one in the Top left faculty LED workshops they're usually about 6 of these per year in each workshop is 6 hours long and their Top at Harvard faculty members we think of them as somewhat of a best hits of leadership the faculty workshops that we've had this semester where the following we had authentic leadership Top by Brigadier General Diana born.
We had lobbying with professor Mark Bacon and just last night. We finished up creative creating positive organizational culture with Professor Ebony Bridwell Mitchell from a Harvard Graduate School of Education practitioner. Workshops are shorter again. We have about six of these per year. But they are only 80 minutes long and they bring in an expert in a field of leadership. That's a practitioner so actually on the field doing it. And they have a hands on workshop on their topic and area of expertise this semester. We had a workshop on board management in membership.
Katherine McCoy,
02:17:17 PM
is there a way to download these slides?
We had a workshop on beyond allyship in this diversity inclusion, blinding space with Tracy Jones in a workshop on radical in deep listening with rain. Wentworth each of these folks come do this work in their field on a day-to-day basis and it was really great to for them to share this with the students beyond these sets of workshops. We have about 20 students who do a deep dive into experiential leadership through the leadership development. Cohort they study leadership by going through this high touch and hopefully high reward experience.
Um where students from across HPS degree programs get together about 5 times through the semester to create their own leadership laboratory and then finally we have our Dubin leadership field experience where students apply actually right about now during the semester. Toledo trip in May, where they explore apolosi issue and then also have study sessions throughout the spring semester to get to know the area better and then really it's experiential leadership because they are planning the trip.
Having that leadership laboratory as part of it. I hope that this was helpful to you all as you think about planning your time at HBS, an I'm going to hand it over now to my colleague, Colleen Kelly from the social innovation in change initiatives.
Thank you very much hi everyone, this is Colleen. I'm Joyce here by my colleague young who is our community. Relations coordinator so I'm going to share kind of high level or work about spicy and some frameworks that we've developed and then I'll turn it over to move to share what your experience might look like if you join us as a student here next year. So just to Orient everyone to the social innovation and change initiative also known as spicy. We launched and sit underneath the Center for public leadership.
But really build on history and academic heft of social change. That is deeply embedded here at the Kennedy School in our mission to train leaders and generate the ideas that provide solutions to our most challenging public problems so broadly before I begin. It's important to say that we've used social innovation as innovation with the intent to address social problems. So this might be different than innovating for its own sake or where we assume that creating something new is always good. It's also not innovation for profit or to be disruptive to an industry.
To exploit a particular resource. It's icy. We very much focused on innovation in the light of its potential to lead positive social impact and that is to improve the lives of individuals and communities so with this in mind. We set out on a path in 2016 as social innovators ourselves and launched I see with the mission of advancing this study, and practice of innovation with a social purpose, and we analyzed. What is really available in this ecosystem here at Harvard and thought deeply about where we as an initiative at the Kennedy school can add value.
So on this slide, you'll see kind of 4 bullet points that outline our approach that I'd like to call out so we really view social innovation with uh systems lens, which means to us is about cultivating a deep understanding of the ecosystem in which your work is unfolding beyond organizational bounds. We also bring in multisector competences. An this is aligned with operating with the whole system in mind means that you need to have a fluid understanding of how the problem in solutions really play out a cross for profit, nonprofit and public sectors.
You know in academia, we have 100 years of research understanding how you maximize along one dimension, which is profit and our hope is that we are as rigorous and drawing upon other disciplines and sectors about conversations in power change management communication and storytelling to have that level of rigor an analysis on how you maximize on dimensions like social change. We also very much take a global context to our work. the Kennedy School is one of the most international student bodies here.
Within the Harvard University ecosystem so we think it's very important to ground our expertise and experiences with a global perspective and Lastly. We grapple with the politics of change social change is inherently political in its nature and we must pay attention to the relational aspects of change and innovation as much as we do with organizational modeling and technical advances. So we as any good institution does in an academic setting developed a framework to help people think about their own work.
In their own role in this work and see our mission is helping innovators whether their experience in aspiring or just those who care about the social problem to help find their fit in a movement for social change. So you'll see. Maybe you can't read it so well on this slide, but you will see that there's 3 kinds of circles that are intersecting on the right side. The 1st is that we ask people to start with the social problem that they care about an have a strong commitment to this problem that you care about solving and then at the bottom you'll see the 2nd.
He is the person and this is really about identifying yourself as the agent of change in the sources of power that you bring to the work and finally our biases that the last circle is the pathway and this should be informed by your analysis of the problem and who you are as that agent of change and so we are very much agnostic to the organizational vehicle that you can use to create change. Whether that starting a new organization innovating within the existing organization, launching a social movement or being a grassroots.
Organizer we encourage innovators to think strategically about what pathways are available to create impact in the world. So this is a little bit about who we are, but you're probably wondering what does this mean for me if I'm a student so I'm going to turn it over to my colleague moved to share more thank you. Colleen so we have distilled our student engagement opportunities into 3 themes. The first one, is inspired we invite folks within our diverse community of social innovators who share knowledge and raise and a highlight of course, important issues and topics are happening today and just for example. Today we wholesale tosha. Brown, who is the Co founder of Blackwater's not refund for a workshop.
On stakeholder analysis, the second theme is developed through workshops competitions in programming. We provide training opportunities to our community of social innovators to become more effective changemakers 1 programming that I like to call out is our New World Social Innovation Fellowship Program. It is a Co curricular rigorous program for students social innovators who are deeply committed to creating positive social change in the world and finally the 3rd pillar pillar for us is connect. We know social innovation doesn't happen in isolation, so we create intentional space for students to come together.
We have a studio space that is dedicated to social innovators practitioners, and students to come together to activate on their social change efforts and I will quickly pass that over to my colleague Maya from the behavioral insights group. Thank you. Hi everyone, my name is Mya and I am program manager will be able insights group. We were founded in 2013. So were relatively knew and our faculty chair is Professor Todd Rogers were essentially a network of 53.
Faculty members across Harvard so we live here at the Kennedy School at Cpl. But we support the entire University. We're very fortunate that many of the world's best decision research scholars. Behavioral economists another behavioral scientists are here at Harvard and they're applying their expertise to some of the most challenging problems by focusing focusing their energies, improving how decisions are made both by leaders.
Individuals and big is driven by the belief that improving the quality of leaders decisions is one of the core lovers. We can use to improve the world.
Um when leaders an individuals make better decisions. Amazing changes can happen, especially in the policy areas that we focus on such as health finance energy sustainability, education government national security. So you're probably curious well. What does that mean to me as a student? We also have behavioral insights student group, which is a part of our pie. In addition to alumni and broader by uh.
Big community for students we have a committee of 20 student members. They come from Kennedy School and all other schools across Harvard and they have different chairs and they help with Miko organize our curriculum student curriculum throughout the academic year.
I'm going to name a couple of things that we do UH-1 of our umcor and Ricky events is behavioral insights career Expo that happens once a year in the fall and it brings about 20 organizations. Both from private and public sector. It's more of a hybrid where we talk a little bit about cutting edge research. But we also talk about jobs careers and all the options that exist out there for our students. So I also with that. I also offer career coaching for students who are in Korea.
Fish and some of them even come from working for example, bit or ideas 42, but they're looking to sort of re brand themselves and transition into maybe another organization, another opportunity within the field. We also fund for some of you MTP prospects. We candidates we are also offering funding for the PE projects. We generally fund 3 to 5 each year to allow students to travel.
To a lot of time developing country or run a research experiments. We also offer skills workshops throughout the academic here. Some examples would be how to organize RCT or field experiment? How to run and M Turk or qual tricks and we also support faculty. We have roundtables with faculty. We recently organized judgment and decisionmaking conference actually for the first time.
Here at Harvard so I think with that I will be happy to answer any questions. You can reach out to me at any point. But I will turn it over to my colleague. Kevin thank you. My name is Devon Crawford on the staff directory for the William Monroe Trotter collaborative for social justice. I will work closely with Cornell William Brooks, who is the faculty directory. The Trotter Collaborative is named after the first African American, 5 Beta Kappa Graduate William Monroe Trotter, who was also a founding influence.
Of the Niagara movement NAACP and the equal rights League with the tronic laborat if we've identified 4 primary objectives which include leveraging the harvards analytic capital for grassroots organizations across America and these are organizations that are smaller than your large NAACP's or Urban League but smaller organizations that need help in building capacity to fill their social justice agenda is the second is to equip those organizations to address intersectional.
Injustice is injustice is that affect gender that are based on race, class, and identity an use. Interdisciplinary tools to bolster social justice. Campaigns 3rd to craft evidence based justice reforms that both impact and inspire and Lastly. We teach students. Harvard wide to serve at the grassroots level with a sense of calling and commitment so this is more than looking at social justice campaigns as Analytic. Tinker tools or the the tools of advocacy as Tinker tools but really.
Understanding that the stakes are high as we engage in this work of social justice. So one of the ways that we actualize. These these goals is through the course, creating justice in real-time vision strategies, and campaigns and in this course cohort of 24 students are working with four organizations across the country. The organizations are at the New Jersey Institute for social justice. The democracy initiative in Flint, MI Foundation for Louisiana in Baton Rouge and the lawyers committee for civil rights.
In Washington, DC, and over the course of the semester. The students were working to working to develop social justice campaigns with these organizations going to the field of doing impact assessment understanding who the Allies are as well as who the opponents would be as they seek to build their campaigns. They campaigns focus on Liberian immigration crisis that seeking to protect the DD status of Liberian immigrants by March 2020 looking at the ways that we can create Democratic transparency in the city of Flint.
Michigan Louisiana, we are working to create an LGBTQ hate crime ordinance to protect those who are vulnerable as well as push Bell fines and fees reform on the state level and finally, we are working with the New Jersey Institute for social justice to determine what state based reparations can look like based on the legacy of slavery and how it's actualized in the state so in the spring. We have a course entitled money morals and movements, which is.
A larger course that focuses on Criminal Justice Reform as a case study in the United States and other way to engage students that rotted collaborative is through the inaugural social justice. Hackathon, which recently took place on November 15th here at Harvard University and the government Conference Center and this was an opportunity to engage undergraduate and graduate students, not only from Harvard, but from across the Greater Boston area from Tufts University. Boston University and students with social justice who are not currently enrolled.
To generate ideas for these ongoing campaigns that could be helpful for our partner organizations so they try to collaborative is committed to advancing bolstering citizen activism through rigorous research and scholarship has this isn't a young organization only conceived in 2018. We are looking to scale up and expand our reach to really give students a field experience along with the analytic scholarship that they engage in at HKS and with that I'd like to.
Pass the mic to my colleague Danny thank you. My name is Annie Trenton. This system director events and outreach at the Center for public leadership. We have opportunities for students as soon as they get started here at the Kennedy School to submit request for funding for events and conferences. We welcome students to bring ideas to us. Many students we find it already have established networks or a great ideas.
One minute they walk through the Kennedy school doors. The first day and then as time goes on. They create their networks at the school and develop even better ideas. So we want to hear about them from students and we do have limited funding to support these events and conferences and with the caveat that they're open to the Kennedy School campus and community and that there in support of leadership development goals that align with PPL schools as well. So just to give you an idea of some folks have come through our doors.
From presidential candidates to international social change agents. We we see our events as outside the classroom and the Co curricular programs supporting extracurricular leadership development for students serving as a supplement to the classroom. Firming leadership development correctly curriculum that students are learning in the classroom and bringing in leadership practitioners to supplement and support student leadership.
Mary Downs
02:34:09 PM
Any questions for our CPL team?
Lessons as they prepared to go out an impact the world's that that they will live in after graduation, so can't wait to hear about your ideas when you're on campus and looking forward to welcoming you all as you start your journey here. An I will pass the mic back over to my rich Antonio. Thank you Annie Anne. Thank you team. We hope those of you who are trained in this webinar. Also, if you have any questions. This is the time to now.
Type them up and we're happy to respond to your questions, but wanted to just say well. We're waiting for your questions on behalf of the CPLT more direct are ambassador, Wendy Sherman. Her Co director Dana born would like to thank you for joining us this afternoon. and I know a lot more of you will be listening. To this webinars, so if you have any additions at all. Any additional questions at all. Please feel free to contact us you can have all our contact information on our website, Cpl Dot.
Mary Downs
02:34:49 PM
Katherine, we will post the recording on the website. If you would like a PDF copy of the slides, please email admissions@hks.harvard.edu
Hks.harvard.edu or through the admissions website, I will just say perhaps since the deadline is up coming for you to apply to the Cpl. Fellowships that we discussed briefly at the beginning is a 2 step process you will need to apply 1st to HKS. By December 3 and then you have until February 3. To actually apply to any of our Cpl. Fellowships and we will have.
Another of this webinar that will BCPL Fellowship specific sometime in mid January so for those who have special interests. Then, please join us, then or reach out to us at anytime and then just use. You've heard the entire gamut of our student engagement and programming at Cpl. It's not only fellowships is not only leadership development. There's so many chances to engage with us. So when you come to HKS we would be happy to.
You know welcome you to our community, so do we have any other?
Lucas Braga Machado
02:35:47 PM
Mary... Where do we sign up for more online events similar to this one?
Shaundra Ullman
02:35:52 PM
For SICI team: Could you talk about your partnerships or integration with business schools (HBS, Sloan)?
It's a quite group today in a cold weather in Boston. Where do we sign up for more online events OK? That's for you, Mary and so there's a question on saying it for future virtual sessions. And so those are posted on the admissions events page as Mirshad will have a Segal Fellowship.
For based virtual session in January along with some more that I focused on the financial aid. Applications that are due later in the winter but you can send over all of those on our admissions website.
Lucas Braga Machado
02:36:22 PM
Thank you.
Katherine McCoy,
02:36:31 PM
thank you
Try to guess I think yes, OK, there was a question for site C team could you talk about your partnerships or integration with business schools HBS loan? This is a wonderful question so I did not mention our founder and faculty chair is Julie bottle on a who is Julie tenured at the Harvard Business School. And here at Harvard Kennedy School so she is finally enough a hybrid of sorts herself and studies hybrid organizations, which are organizations that pursue a financial and social bottom line. So we are definitely influenced by her work. But I would think of us, I see as a wonder.
Combo at for people who are pursuing new ventures to the support that business will provide in terms of thinking of how you produce a high impact business venture. We can get into the details of how are you also thinking about building into your organization high impact social value return so I think there's a lot of complementarity to what business schools can offer an if you were to come here there's a lot of ways that we can help you navigate the resources that are available at local places like HBO.
And Sloan as well as other factors in the ecosystem.
I hope that answers your question.
Shaundra Ullman
02:37:32 PM
Thank you!
Sarah Cornett
02:38:04 PM
Thanks for the helpful information!
Alright I think that's my goal signal for Mary. I guess on behalf of admissions. I'll include you all and TMCPL would like to thank you. All for joining us and for those who will be listening. To this webinar again, you will need to apply 1st to HKS. By December 3 and then to the Cpl. Opportunities after that until February 3rd for financial aid. And then when you get into HKS weather, HPS specific or joint degree or concurrently with student.
Lucas Braga Machado
02:38:26 PM
All pretty helpful. Thanks. Great guidance.
Yasir Dhaeer
02:38:43 PM
Thanks to arrange such events